EU must prioritise biodiversity and climate change, as UN sounds alarm (WK-intern) - European Committee of the Regions President calls on EU to step up efforts in response to "profoundly alarming" UN report. The European Union must place biodiversity at the top of its agenda, together with efforts to radically cut carbon emissions, the President of the European Committee of the Regions said on 7 May in response to a United Nations report that warns that "our life-support system" – the natural world – is at ever-greater risk, with one million species facing extinction. President Karl-Heinz Lambertz described the report as an "emergency